DoktorThomas™’s Comments

• Aug 6th, 2016 @ 1:07pm

  Re: open practice

  on Frustrated Public Defender Appoints Governor -- And Licensed Attorney -- To Provide Indigent Defense
  Open practice: Anyone who dares to swim with sharks should be allowed in the "cesspool" (courtroom).
  
  The bar argues the lay person will disrupt the court--many of their licensed practitioners do more than disrupt and less than an adequate job. Many jobs require drafting legal documents and those individuals are not lawyers. Realtors, for example.
  
  If one can read, he can study law. Knowing the law is only part of it. Having common sense and the ability to rationally apply the rules to facts of a case is not taught in law school. (They think they do but they do not.) It is learned through trial by fire.
  
  ABA licensing restrains creativity and keeps the mindless practicing.
  
  Anyone who thinks he can understand the law should be allowed. Some of our greatest men in US history didn't go to an ABA law school. (The best Supreme Court justice wasn't a lawyer.) Today the lawyers all do and no one is great in the profession (look at our elected officials for numerous examples of malaise). It seems to be a pattern. ©2016
• Aug 6th, 2016 @ 6:56am

  Re: "someone who caused . . ."

  on Frustrated Public Defender Appoints Governor -- And Licensed Attorney -- To Provide Indigent Defense
  Having spent more than two decades practicing law with stellar results, including criminal defense work, all defendants were where they were because they knowingly made choices that got them there.
  The Constitution may say what it does, but it doesn't say that citizens with no relation to the drama have to pay for the defense. Some idiot judge with a huge salary decided that.
  I am no longer compelled to help the self-chosen lawbreaker when he gets caught (when one reaches epiphany he quits law). Funding public defenders should perhaps be a burden exclusively for judges, prosecutors, and police officers--designed to make them more rational in their job performance.
  I do support automatic execution within 7 days of the 3rd felony conviction because I know the nature of the beast, neither punishment nor rehabilitation works.
  Criminals knowingly choose to not abide by society's rules; these types simply are not needed and should be permanently removed.
  The crazy ones deserve no special treatment. "I'm defective so the law doesn't apply" is BS.
  Criminals need to receive the same callous treatment they spread. ©2016
  PS. I do like the idea of making state officers, judges, prosecutors, corporate execs and anyone else with a law degree have to do criminal defense work. I also support the open practice law--the ABA and the state bar associations are the most incompetent of any professional oversight group; they more than any other factor make the practitioners ineffective, delusional, and paranoid. Open practice would force improvement in services delivered and efficiency at all levels.